Outputting X^n without caret

Question

I am writing a simple android app and I would like to set the text of a button to be X^n but I want it to look the same way as it would if you would write it on a piece of paper( for example 2⁶).

I know there are several unicode characters that does it for a small group of numbers but I am looking for a generel function (or any other way) that takes two integers and output the first by the power of the second. For example:

int X=2;
int n=6;
function(X , n) ==> 2⁶

I know a similar question was asked here before but its answers were not sufficient because I want to use variables' values and not actual numbers;

Thanks!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '14 at 12:49

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You can use html's <sup> tags for that:

button.setText(Html.fromHtml("X<sup>n</sup>"));

answered Nov 20 '14 at 12:49

Simas

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Yes but I want X and n to be Variables not to give their actual value. Like: int X = 2; int n = 6; button.setText(Html.fromHtml("Xⁿ")); ==> 2⁶ – user3293135 Nov 21 '14 at 10:17
@user3293135 you can use simple java concatenation with variables. – Simas Nov 21 '14 at 10:59
Can you please elaborate? – user3293135 Nov 21 '14 at 12:55

Outputting X^n without caret

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